Xigxag v2007.0602 for DOS

by: Cat's Eye Technologies

Publication date: 2007-06-02
Topics: Esoteric programming languages, Automata
Language: English
Item Size: 1.4M

Xigxag is a simple string-copying automaton that has exponential growth almost everywhere (i.e. there are only a finite number of initial configurations that don't blow up.) It was published with a proof of this fact in 2007, but was discovered and initially implemented several years earlier, in 2001.

Esolangs.org entry: Xigxag

Technical Information

This Internet Archive item runs the Xigxag reference interpreter under Perl 5.8.8 under DOSBox. A menu is included to help demonstrate the automaton.

Addeddate: 2023-08-04 10:23:39
Associated-names: Chris Pressey
Emulator: dosbox
Emulator_ext: zip
Emulator_start: AUTOEXEC.BAT
Identifier: xigxag-2007.0602-dos
Inception-date: 2001
Scanner: Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0
Source: https://catseye.tc/distfiles/xigxag-2007.0602.zip
Year: 2007